This paper suggests some reflections about Darwinâ€™s work main antecedents and consequences, from de perspective of its impact on societyâ€™s world view. It developes how darwinist tought meant, in the biological knowledge area, the course from myth to logos, from a timeless biological philosophy to the integration of life in geological and cosmologic time, and from determinism characteristic in classic newtonian mechanics to indeterminism typical in quantum-evolutionist paradigm.

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